Legal Counsel

Your Key Responsibilities:
• Supporting the corporate legal organization within France, Spain and Italy  across all business verticals, including board and company secretarial support;
• Advise or assist on advising on transactional, commercial, HR, litigation, joint venture and compliance/regulatory issues  across our various industries;
• Review, represent, and negotiate a variety of corporate, commercial, and employment-related agreements, in particular relating to logistics customer contracts, port terminal services agreements and related procurement contracts;
• Provide or assist in providing  legal advice to address additional issues relating to data privacy and security, intellectual property, tax, labour and employment law, and other issues. Familiarity with GDPR regulation and TUPE issues is required, as well as experience with works councils;
• Assist with formulation and implementation of policies and procedures as needed to ensure that business operations are compliant with internal and external requirements;

• Support on the entry of the cluster into new markets and/or integration of acquired entities;

• Source and oversee external counsel, ensuring high quality and good value advice is received by the business;
• Support responses to RFPs, RFQs and similar opportunities;;


• Work  and develop a strong relationship with the broader European legal team to discuss issues, coordinating activities, and resolving legal or compliance problems and closely cooperate to ensure synergy between departments, appropriate awareness of activities, and maintenance consistent processes and procedures;

• Establish and maintain good contact with external counsels and legal experts.

Your Background:
• Excellent academic credentials; qualified as a lawyer in France ; 
• A minimum of 5 years of post-qualification experience in relevant areas, with strong emphasis on general corporate and/or commercial contracts. Experience in a corporate (commercial) organization and with business operations is strongly preferred;
• Strong transaction management skills and excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a high degree of personal and professional integrity;

• Fluent/professional working proficiency in the French  & English language, proficiency in Italian and/or Spanish is a plus;
• Understanding of basic economic and accounting principles and practices;

• Based in France ;

• The ability to undertake occasional business travel as required, specifically in the cluster.

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